Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-23
The two first referred to were evident

The two first referred to were evident
ly Americans; both their compilations
and their casual remarks to each other,
given in low tone, showed it. One
was tall, slim young man OF perhaps
twenty-three. whose pale face was
lined with the marks of dissipation and
excess. He was decidedly handsome,
with his raven black hair, his broad
white forehead, his long straight nose
and delicately curFing lips; but he had
a pair of such cold blue eyes as made
you wonder that they could have been
mismated with his dark hair and eye
brows. The common expression OF his
face was unprepossessing. even when
he smiled. It was not face to invite
the confidence of stranger.
The contrast between him and his
companion was marked. The latter
| was a head shorter, stout, squarely
built and muscular, with great rough
hands, and big head set upon his
broad shoulders with little appearance
of neck. A thick mat of grizzled hair
covered it, and shaggy eyebrows al
most hid his little twinkling gray eyes.
] His face was tanned and Drowned by
sun and wind, great livid scar showed
where his whole cheek had been once
laid open by sword-cut, and stubbed
| beard and mustache covered his lower
face. Notwithstanding the heat of the
sun, he wore a tarpaulin nat and a
heavy dreadnaught coat He looked
precisely what he was-a son of the
sea, who had followed it two-thirds of
his life, who was never at home when
ashore, and who had sailed to every
quarter of the globe. His age was
nearly sixty years.
As he looked now upon the crowd
and the preparations for the execution.
his sturdy, honest face expressed an
indignation that he dared not utter
but his feelings found relief from time
to time by running commentary NUT.
tered to the young man beside him
1.-THE Internal Spanish villains! Al
the wonder to me is, that the Spanish
blood could make such hero as the
man they are going to murder. There
must be some mistake about his family
I'd bet silver dollar there's dash o.
Anglo-Saxon blood in him.
"Uncle, uncle, whispered the young
man, .do be quiet! You'll be over
heard by some of these officers"
"Well, wouldn't care very much
I feel ugly-that's the long and shor
of it. tell you, Louis, if that nobl
fellow up there had succeeded, he'd b
called another Washington or Bolivar
and I'll be smashed if he wouldn' t hav
succeeded, too, and driven the who'll
Spanish-Cuban army into the Gulf,
he'd had with him two thousand of gu
countrymen such as stout old Zacl
TAYLOR had with him at Buena Vista
when he rolled twenty thousand jus
such soldiers as these here back owe
the mountains. And say, boy, tina
if Washington or Bolivar had failed
they'd have had the same fate dealt GU
to them as Lopez. One would have ha
the rope, and the other the garrote.
Twill you be quiet, uncle, or do 20
want to get both of us in trouble?"
!, The sailor was by this time red an
angry. He looked at his nephew wit
= something like contempt, and said:
81 don't think you're likely to g
, into any trouble, Louis, that woul
= come from sympathy with any OF
else"
"Perhaps not" said the other, quie
L lv. not in the least moved by n
= uncle's retort. ''But / haven't ar
- sympathy to throw away on lot
unwary adventures who go on de
) perate expedition with their lives
. their hands The affair has turned o.
, just as expected it would, and l s;
they are being served exactly right. y
10 The sailors wrath was rising high
:, and higher.
IL .Well, by -, Louis Hunter, L
glad now that you're only my nephe
by adoption! My sisters own DO
=. who died before she took you, HI
- some of the same blood that stirs
~ NV old veins; he wouldn't talk CT thil
- as you do, if he stood here by my 81
-, and saw what's going on up there"
The young man seemed not in t
-, least put out by the reproof. In fa
he gave an irritating little laugh, viii
did not at all soften his uncle's d
~ pleasure.
IN you've got about as much blood
ne a goldfish" the sailor growled.
20 "Well, much or little, don't me
nc to get any of it let out by these h
" tempered Spaniards. Now, unc